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Monday, November 30, 2009

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With all the Christmas craze, and people vying to get that perfect gift, I thought I’d share a fun little story and photo.

My dad was always a last-minute Christmas shopper…not Black Friday for him. And by last-minute, I literally mean Christmas Eve. So, late on 24 December 1983, my dad went to Zayre to purchase the “big” toy of the season, a Cabbage Patch Kid. He waited all night to get one. The photo below is me with Grandma Miller and the Cabbage Patch Kid I named Jill.

That was the year we hunted and hunted for Cabbage Patch dolls for my daughter and niece. My sister-in-law ended up getting both of them but I understand it was an ugly scene in the store. My daughter's doll had red hair, was the only doll she ever played with and she kept it until she was a teen. I still have the pattern booklet I used to make them both full wardrobes.

Julie Cahill Tarr, Genealogist

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